Negotiated Study - Setting the pathways through space - Drain/Water Sounds

Markings and trails left behind

Noticing traces and marks left behind ...

Images of my Sound Journey - walk through the snow

IPP Work : Image 3

IPP Work : Image 2

IPP Work : Image

Ideas forming ...

This entry has particularly helped by enabling me to reflect on the exploration and rehearsal process. When I look back at this entry it reminds me of how rehearsal processes are documented on the Siobhan Davies’ Replay Archive. By blogging the development from movement with paper to the idea of dance making with large netting, I have been able to channel my thoughts and creativity.

Trip to Warwick Arts Centre - Hannah Starkey 'Twenty-Nine Pictures'

As part of our Interdisciplinary Performance Practices sessions, we went to visit the Warwick Arts Centre and viewed Hannah Starkey's collection, titled 'Twenty-Nine Pictures'. She focuses on themes and issues such as class, race, gender and identity in her work. In this collection, all the photographs were of women. NARRATIVES, WOMEN, REFLECTIONS, MIRRORS, SEPERATION We were then fortunate to meet Hannah Starkey and listen to her work in her Artists Talk. She talked about how she observed people from a young age. Her mother ran a market stall and she used to help out. This is where her fascination with people began.

Skinner Release into my Body Story

These scanned in artist journal pages about the Skinner Release Technique has inspired me to explore somatic practices through my Body Story. I aim to develop my understanding of the Skinner Release Technique and to look in more depth at other somatic practices.

This is the question I have chosen to answer:

Different somatic based practices can have many benefits for the dancer. Consider how the different techniques you have been introduced to have contributed to your development as a dancer in both formal 'class' settings and in your everyday life.

Skinner Release

As part of our Movement Studies module, Florence Peake led several Skinner Release sessions. Over the past few weeks we've looked at playing with images such as SKULL/MARIONETTE STRINGS, COLD WHITE MIST, FLOATING ON A HAMMOCK, GOSSALA/COBWEB STRINGSThe images from these lessons have stayed with me and have helped me in other classes. We focus on the breath and these sessions made me realize I have not been breathing properly when I dance. We did an exercise in partners where we lifted each others ribs. This really helped me to find the space in the ribs and gave me an uplifting sensation in this area.